He came early and had finished scanning half of the folds before a few bachelors came over.
In the past, when sorting the excerpts, several bachelors would chat casually, but today, they were all silent, especially Cao Taizhuo, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, who looked particularly bad.
Yesterday, when Sheng Hong listed the crimes of the British public in the Tai Chi Hall, he mentioned that the British public used the fifth prince to interfere in the year-end assessment of officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Although Sheng Hong didn't mention him by name, as the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, his face was naturally dull.
Several powerful ministers were silent. Li Qiao, a small fifth-rank official, naturally did not dare to say a word. He worked in silence and quickly sorted all the records.
It's time to go see Sheng Hong with the fold in hand.
When he arrived at the Qiuxian Hall and saw Sheng Hong, he quietly observed Sheng Hong's expression.
Sheng Hong has a fair complexion, so dark circles under his eyes are very obvious. Moreover, Sheng Hong's eyebrows have been frowning unconsciously.
Obviously, Sheng Hong didn't get a good rest.
Yesterday, he only focused on celebrating and did not have any contact with the Seventh Prince. Therefore, he did not know what happened in the palace yesterday.
However, the fifth prince, Concubine Dong Guifei and some officials who originally supported the fifth prince will definitely come to Sheng Hong to intercede.
Sheng Hong must be very upset when facing these people.
Therefore, let's just be honest today. As for whether those innocent people will be compensated, he will wait until Sheng Hong is in a better mood before asking.
At worst, he donated some money, those people were really miserable.
Fortunately, Sheng Hong was an emotionally stable emperor and rarely angered others. Although he was in a bad mood, he did not vent his anger on Qian San, Li Qiao and others.
Li Qiao, the ghostwriter, sat peacefully until noon.
Sheng Hong asked him to leave the palace after lunch.
The wheat is almost ripe. In the afternoon, Sheng Hong will summon the ministers to discuss this year's wheat harvest.
Food is the first priority for the people, and food issues must be taken seriously.
Li Qiao had a sumptuous lunch in the palace and then left the palace.
However, unfortunately, as soon as he arrived at the palace entrance, he saw a person walking towards the palace entrance on neat bluestones:
It was none other than the fifth prince.
The fifth prince originally walked forward with his head sullenly, looking worried. The eunuch following behind him reminded him in a low voice, and he finally raised his head.
When he raised his head, he saw Li Qiao.
Li, buckwheat.
He gritted his teeth and read these two words again, then shook his clothes and walked straight towards Li Qiao with a gloomy face.
Li Qiao: "..."
That's all, it has to happen sooner or later anyway.
He continued to walk forward at his original speed. When the fifth prince came to him, he saluted respectfully and said, "I have met the fifth prince."
However, before he could straighten up, the fifth prince took a sudden step forward and stretched his arm in front of his heart.
Obviously, the fifth prince wanted to grab him by the collar.
He stepped back and avoided the fifth prince's claws: "Fifth prince, this is the entrance to the palace, please calm down."
As soon as these words came out, the fifth prince's anger level soared again. He sneered and raised his feet again.
But Li Qiao was on guard against him and dodged to the left to avoid his attack.
After failing to succeed twice, the fifth prince suddenly looked as if he had swallowed a caterpillar alive: "You still dare to hide?!"
"Then why don't you lower your rank and run to the palace?"
Li Qiao pointed to the palace gate a few meters behind him.
There stood a group of twenty soldiers in armor and swords. At this time, these twenty elite soldiers were all looking at him and the fifth prince with eager eyes.
No one is allowed to make noise at the entrance of the palace.
Except for Sheng Hong and Sheng Jun, no one can cause trouble here.
Fifth Prince: "!"
This is threatening him!
However, looking at those well-trained Imperial Guards, his heated head calmed down.
He had just been scolded by his father yesterday, and now that he was attacking Li Qiao, he was indeed being unreasonable.
However, seeing the innocent look on Li Qiao's face, he felt itching with hatred.
Stretching out his hand and tapping Li Qiao twice, he asked with a sullen face: "You already knew that my father looked bad in the Tai Chi Hall the day before yesterday, so why didn't you send a message to this prince?!"
"?"
Li Qiao opened his eyes wide, and the look on his face became even more innocent: "I can't reveal a word about the Tai Chi Palace to the public."
"Besides, I didn't know that the Holy Lord's anger was directed at the British Duke at that time, and I was not qualified to read the secret information."
Fifth Prince: "..."
He took a deep breath, and the fingers of both hands clenched into fists crackled.
But he couldn't refute Li Qiao's words.
As far as he knew, Li Qiao was indeed not qualified to read the secret book.
But he felt even more aggrieved!
If this anger is not vented, he will soon be suffocated to death!
He stretched out his hand and tapped Li Qiao hard, and said: "Sure, I won't talk to you about anything else. I only want to tell you one thing."
"You, Li Qiao, are a murderer!"
Along with the word "murderer", he looked a little ferocious, which showed that he hated Li Qiao very much.
Li Qiao frowned: "I don't know what you mean by this."
"What do you mean? Ha, if you hadn't robbed the Lu family's gambling house of business, if you hadn't been fighting with the Lu family's ducks, then how could the British public open more gambling houses?"
"Although the British Lord killed someone, you, Li Qiao, don't know it either. You are an accomplice and you are also a murderer!"
Li Qiao: "..."
He looked at the fifth prince in silence without any excuse.
The face that was deliberately expressive just now to anger the fifth prince now only showed solemnity.
Seeing Li Qiao's silence, the fifth prince sneered: "Not to refute is to acquiesce. You Li Qiao talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but in fact you have killed hundreds of people."
"You have blood on your hands that can't be washed off!"
If he had known that Li Qiao could jump so high, he would have secretly sent someone to kill Li Qiao!
Since he can't do it now, he must ruin Li Qiao's good reputation.
His mother and concubine were right. This Li Qiao was indeed a murderer. If Li Qiao hadn't been pressing forward every step of the way, how could the British Duke have lost his mind?
"Fifth Prince, those people who lost their lives, those innocent family members who were implicated, these tragedies, I am really heartbroken."
"But in all the disputes with the British public, I was forced to fight back, so I cannot agree with your accusations."
"Instead of angrily scolding the official, why not go find the problem with the Lu family? If Lu Wenrong, that useless loser, hadn't insulted the official, wouldn't what happened today be the same?"
"I still have something to do. You must have something important to do when you enter the palace. I won't delay your work. Please go slowly."
After saying this, Li Qiao was speechless and just stood there with his eyes lowered.
The fifth prince's joy in poking Li Qiao's sore spot was immediately dampened by Li Qiao's cold attitude.
He stretched out his hand and tapped Li Qiao again, but he couldn't refute anything. In the end, he could only repeat what he just said bitterly: "Don't let yourself off the hook, you are a murderer anyway!"
After saying this, he entered the palace with a gloomy face.
Indeed, he had something serious to discuss with his mother and concubine, and he couldn't be delayed for too long by this flea named Li.
When the fifth prince entered the palace, Li Qiao returned to the Hanlin Academy. Xin Zhi saw him and hurriedly recounted to him the behavior of the Lu family that he had inquired about yesterday.
After hearing all the ugliness of the Lu family, he felt better.
I continued reading in the afternoon, but at about two o'clock in the afternoon, a young eunuch suddenly came to the Hanlin Academy: Sheng Hong summoned him to the palace.
Didn't Sheng Hong want to summon a few ministers to talk about the wheat harvest?
Why did you ask him to come over and act as a pen writer again, and was the negotiation over so quickly?
With doubts in his heart, he followed the young eunuch to the Hall of Seeking Xian.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of Qiuxian Hall, he saw the fifth prince kneeling upright in front of the imperial court, and Sheng Hong was sitting behind the imperial court, flipping through a book.
"Li Aiqing is here, come here."
Sheng Hong saw him, put down the fold in his hand, and waved to him.
Li Qiao stepped forward quickly, came to Sheng Hong and saluted first, and then saluted the fifth prince.
"I heard that you and Ang'er had a dispute at the gate of the palace. Ang'er said that you were a murderer. Is this true?"
Sheng Hong asked with raised eyebrows.
"...It does happen."
Li Qiao replied respectfully.
"Then do you think you are a murderer?"
Sheng Hong asked again.
"Weichen doesn't think so. But I didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of me, so Weichen is willing to donate some money to make life easier for those innocent family members."
"Ha, now you know how to donate money. Why didn't you say donating in front of me just now? You were hypocritical, and you did it deliberately to show your father."
The fifth prince sneered.
Although he was kneeling, it didn't stop him from taunting Li Qiao.
Hearing this, Sheng Hong also sneered: "You did it for me to see? Then you should do it for me too. Seriously speaking, those people who died tragically have something to do with you. If you hadn't wanted to take money from the Lu family, then Will this happen?!"
